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nut. Obvio~s7y ~ z:1ac~~~ that cmi~o ar~d ~c ob~crv
auacked it. . C COuntless Ofl~c~plos~ons when ~~
JSTARS and O~)er vcry SOPhisLicatcd `;yslcrns ~i~e ~£ a level c}fn~castirc o£ju~t how fl)UCli
~rnaze wt~rc doin£ to his logistics ~a£flc. This is the main supply ~ouIc right here, ihai Comes
a~~~ ~to Kuwait City. In the past, On any givtn day in the e&r!y part of tbe campai~n, YOU Could
100k at that Supply Joule, and at Any given time yau0d find about 1,000 ~rucks on that ~S~
Nowadays ~cnevCT we look at it wIt~ any of our sophisticated systems, the maximum we find is less
`ihan 100. That ~~~£ about a 90 pt~en: d~~radation in hi~ supply ioute. `fyou ~~fl£ibtt that over
10 what we know about tin Supply rate1 i~ takes him about 20,000 tons per day 10 £jippfl the
troops in Xuwai& W~ (eel we've reduced Ll~em to about 2,000 tons per day.
We~vt got ionic Anecdotal infonnatio~ 1J~ai would ~50~mon~te Ihat wt'rc teinA `very
tftectiv£. We get many1 matly reports out ot ICuwait tl~t IraqI soUucu ire begging for f~ f~o~n
~~Y~£~SCaJj~ It, also. 2be~~~ P£isoncrs of war ~at wc'~ ~kcn have
iold tis ~~ ~~I~ng only one uic'.1 a clay Ihat ineal generafly COfl£iits of a bowl o~rj~~ ~ a
bowl of beans -. a1~ (hey have no Watcr in which to bathe. As a result, fliany of the enemy Pfl'Soncrs
~f war :t~at Wt'~ taken ~ 1TL1~ested with btxly iice, and Iflany of them havc open sores on their
fltxt to eOnlC to nuclear, biolo~ical, and chei~~ical. (Chari) We had 31 Largeted
locations, and we've attacked all 31, with over 535 SOrties, as you can see We know this is of great
~I~~£0irtbc~ucJflic~r~~~ae0sraa]tacociiifl~,mt:.niIy Therefore, we arc ~appy to rrpon that wc have destroye~i
~aghad Nuc~earRc~ea~~h (~flterhas boc~ ~~~ W~bblc.
~~~~~~~ )~ft~~£ ~~ ~~ cruise Thissije£ ~vt """~ tSrtl at ti~e nuci~, ~ologie'al1 and
tt)tmical fiCUjues, as havt ~ many aircraft WC"ve ~hown, Over half those facilities ~~~vc boen se~iely
~aged or totally ~Cstroyed, We have absolute Conf'tnnation that we've flestm?ed Over Ii cl)tmical
) ~~b~iolo~ical storage areas. We've also destroyed or heavily damaged thfl~ chemical and biolotical
ction (acili'ties1 and ~~e'rc going to continue a relentless attack on this v~ry, vcry heinous
~Ca~ £)itcfn.
tnC turn now to the ~epublican Guards, ~Yc're targeting t?ie Republican Guards with aI>oui
300 SOrties a day. We're using very accurate bOiiibing, and cvcn In bad weather the many Secondary
tXpl&sion£ cre ~~~r~~1,~£ tlic fact that we're ii)tbcting Continuous ~age on them. ~eZfl~mber, I said
300 sOrtiesaday, but let rne£Ive you some examples, On 26January,~~ 352's dropped 455 tons
~CKp)oSI~~ the lRe'p~bl~a,i G~~ Yeste'r'day,~i lB-52's dro?pta a15 ~S'ofU,~~~ on them.
~oday, 28 B-53'1 drOpped 470 sons on them. That's not ao inen~On lit otbers:rj~, that wC'rC
doing with ~-l6's, F.l5£"5, A-G's, etc,
Just from 12:00 n~n yesterday until 3:00 o'clock this morning -- that's a little bit more
than a half a day we have conf'irmatlon of 178 trucks dCstroyed; 35 artillery pieces destroyed or
damaged; 52 ta,as destroyed or damaged; and heavy SecOndary CAPlosions from revettinents; and
fires all over the area. We had one Spectacular cxplosion on the 28th of January. l'et me give you a
ftference. 1f, On a scale of One to ten, the eruption of a volcano registered ten, and the recent
explosion at the Soviet rocket Propellant plant would ~g1ster a nine, the secondary explosion we had
ale other day ~gistcred a twelyc. We nOw have conrirmation that we destroyed over l2~ StOrfige
rcve(tments in the largcst a~i1mo storage area in the nOfll~crn part of the Kuwaiti theater of
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